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I am new to Shareasale but have already noticed that when I, the merchant, place an order from my computer, the first affiliate to join my program is credited with the sale. I've deduced that this is because the cookie for that site is on my machine, since I visit the sites of most affiliates when they sign up.

Is there a remedy for this, other than clearing cookies all the time? We have to place orders from our own computers regularly because this is how we handle product exchanges.

Has anyone thought of a clever way to prevent this, such as blocking any credits from a specific IP address (meaning the merchant's)?

Yeah, but from what I can see it always takes fishing though that help section in order to get to the delete-cookies page. I tried bookmarking it, but that kicks me to the login screen, and I wasn't comfortable that the cookies had really been deleted.

It turns out that they were, but I'm still not sure whether it works when going direct, relogging in, and bypassing the walk through the Help menu.

Plus, it's easy to forget about that step altogether. My cursor was headed toward my own Order Confirm button when it came to mind that I was about to spend 10% extra (and then either have to reverse or eat it)--I stopped myself just in time!

If there was a way to at least make this page so it wasn't buried under "Help," it would be more of a help.

I can see not blocking all the cookies from an IP, though. If I bought something from one of the other SAS programs, generating a legit sale, it should be commissionable, of course.